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Leveraging the power of NVIDIA's AI and GPU technologies, Isaac Sim offers a realistic and scalable environment for training, validating, and optimizing robots for real-world scenarios.\nWhat you’ll be doing:\nBuilding and integrating tools to configure, simulate, and test robots.\nMaintain and optimize the existing simulation stack for scalable robot and sensor simulation.\nIntegrate APIs to support large scale simulator deployments on distributed systems.\nDevelop microservices using ZMQ, DDS, RPC, RESTful and other network level communication APIs.\nWhat we need to see:\nBS, MS, PhD (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Simulation, or related field (or equivalent experience).\n2+ years of relevant experience in systems software engineering.\nExcellent C, C++, and Python programming skills.\nFlexibility to adapt quickly to varying roles & responsibilities.\nExperience with physics simulation, robotics or motion planning & controls.\nExcellent interpersonal skills and ability to work optimally with multi-functional teams, principles, and architects across organizational boundaries and geographies.\nWays to stand out from the crowd:\nExperience with Isaac Sim, Omniverse, USD, MJCF, URDF, CAD formats.\nBackground with physical robots, reinforcement learning, synthetic data generation.\nExperience with UI/UX for user and developer facing tools.\nBackground with shipping and supporting software products.\nExperience with system level optimization using multi-threading, asynchronous programming, concurrency and parallelism.\nNVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. 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